Easel.



S. KISLOVITZ.

EASEL.

APPLICATION FILED D110. 2, 191.

1,056,1 83. Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL msnovrrafor Emma-am JEnsEY, assieNoE 'ro CHARLES A. BLADES,

E ARLINGTON, NEW JERSEY.

"Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patented Mar; 18,1913.

Application tiled members, 1912. Serial No. 734.449.

'1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL Kisnovrrz, a snh'ect of the Czar of Russia,and a resident of lioboken, in the county of Hudson and State of NewJersey, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Easels, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention pertains to the character of easels attached to the backof and adapted to support in an inclined standing osition display cards,photographs and the like and its ob ect is to provide an easel capableof ready attachment to the back of the card and of having its foldablebrace member or members conveniently and securely locked in operativeposition.

My invention relates more articularly to the novel interlocking mem erspresented herein for securing the brace part or parts of the easel in oerative position said members lieing forme from the material of theeasel and capable of ready manipulation. The easel will preferably beformed in one into ral piece from cardboard, strawboard or he like andwhen not in use may lie flat so as to occupy the minimum amount ofspace. The easel of my invention may. be formed with one brace-member ortwo bracemembers, as may be desired or the use of the device require. 2

The invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described andclaimed and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a back view of a display card having the easel of minvention secured thereto, the easel being a own in its flatnonsnpportin position and as having two hrace-mem rs; Fig. 2 is a likeview of the same, the brace-members being shown as having been turnedoutwardly at an angle to the card and locked insupporting position; Fig.3 is a vertical transverse section through the same on the dotted line8-8 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a horizontal section throu h the same on thedottedline 4-4 of Fig." Fig. 5 is a detached perspective view 0 my easclwhen constructed with only one brace member, said memberbein shown ashaving been turned to its opera ive position,the sccurin devices beingillustrated as partly intcrloc ed, and theupper locking tongue beinshown as ready to be turned downwar 1y to engage the a per end-of thelockin g section carried by e brace-member and complete the locking ofsaid member, and Fig. 0 is a rear elevation, on a smaller scale, of thesingle brace easel represented in F ig. 5, the easel being shown in itslat inopcra; tive position.

In the drawings, designates a display card, photogra h mount or the likeof usual character, to t to back of which my easel is secured byIpasting or otherwise.

The ease referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4,

comprises, in one integral piece, a backmember 11 to be pasted orotherwise attached to the card 10 and two brace-members 12, whichcorrespond with each other and at their inner edges join the back-member11 along vertical scored 01' weakened lines, represented at 13, so as tolie flat, as shown in Fig. 1, or be turned or bent outwardly at an angleto the card 10, as shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4.

In the back 11 I form upper and lower corrcs onding locking tongues 14,15 by slitting tie material of the easel transversely. as at 16, andapproximately vertically, as at 17 said slits defining the outer endsand si es of said tongues. The upper tongue 14 is connected with theback 11 along a transverse score or weakened line 18, and the lowertongue 15 is connected with the back 11 along a transverse score orweakened line 19. The tongue 14 may be turned outwardly and upwardly onthe hinge-line 18, and the tongue 15 may be turned outwardly anddownwardly on the hinge-line 19, as

shown and said tongues 14, 15 are each formed with two transverse slots,those in the tongue 14 bein numbered 20 and those in the tongue 15 beingdesignated 21.

The brace-members 12 are formed, from the material thereof, withcorresponding vertical locking sections 22 which, in the blank or fiatcondition of the easel, extend along the opposite side edges of the.tongues 14, 15 and have their free vertical edges defined and formed bythe slits 17. The upct'and lower ends of the sections 22 are ormed byslits 23 which are about on horizontal planes with the hinge-lines 18,19 for the tongues 14, 15, and said sections at their non-free edges arejoined to the brace-memhere 12 alon vertical score or weakenedhinge-lines 2 so that they may be turned outwardly at an angle to themembers 12 when the easel is to be put into use. The upper and lowerends of the sections 22 are formed with projecting tongues 25 0211 sizeadapted toreceiveuPon thein the slots. 20, 21 of the tongues 14,15" whensaid-sections and tongues 14, are placed in interlocking relationwithone another. I

When the easel is to be placed in use the tongue It will be turned-upwardly,; the tongue 15 downwardly, the 'se'ctions 22 out; wardly atan an le to thebrace-members 12 and said members 12 outwardly towardeach other at an angle to-the back 11',and thereupon the upper tongue 14will be closed downwardly upon the upper ends of the sections 22 and thelower tongue 15 upwardly against the lower ends of the sections 22, thewhole being locked together by the fact that the slots pass upon andengage the upper tongues of the sections 22 and the slots 21 pass uponand engage the lower tongues .25 of said sections, as shown in Figs. 2,3 and 4.

The locking means presented by me restill. in use, in both brace-members12 being securely held in their operative position.

In many instances an easel having only one brace-member will besutiicient, and therefore in Figs. 5 and 6 I illustrate my invention asembodied in a single-brace easel, whose construction and operation willbe readily understood without special detailed explanation in view ofits substantial correspondence with the structure shown in Figs. 1 to 4inclusive. In Fi 5 and 6 the hack of the easel is numbere 26 and thebrace-member 27; the back20 is formed with ttpper and lower hingedtongues 28, 29 corresponding with one vertical half of the aforesaidtongue 14, 15 and the memher'27 is formed with a verttcal'hinged lockiu'section 30 substantially correspondin 'wi i one of the aforesaidsections 22 and aving on its ends tongues 31 to-receive the slots 32 inthe said ton 'ues 28, 29. In the construction shown in igs. 5 and 0, theton ues 28,'

29 cooperate with the section 30 to ock the brace-member 27 in operativeposition, whereas in a similar manner the tongues 14 15 in theconstruction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, cooperate with the sections 22 oftwo brace-members to lock bothof'thein in 0perative position. It isobvious, however, thatin the use of the structure shown in Figs. 1 and2, either braee-member 12 may 'sectton may the card 1 0 while theotherbrace-member 12 is in 1use,,should it be desired to so employ thefeasel.When the easel is used on light.- weig ht'cards one of the tongues inthe backbe allowed to remain out of use and theother tongue relied on toengage the locking sect-ion formed in the bracemember and lock saidmember in operative position.-

- \Vhat'I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent,is:

1. An easel comprisin r a back-section to be secured to a card or thelike and a bracemember connected along a weakened line to the verticaledge of said section, said back-section having therein a lockingtongueconnected therewith along a horizontal hinge-line so as to be turnedoutwardly from said section and said tongue having a transverse slot,and said hraecmember having intcgral therewith adjacent to saidback-section a vertical locking-section connected thereto along avertical hinge-line so as to be turned outwardly at an angle to saidbrace-member, said lockingsection having on its end a tongue to enterthe said slot in said locking-tongue connctt ed with said back-section.

2. An easel comprising a lmcl(sccti(m to be secured to a card or thelike and a bracemember connected along a weakened line to the verticaledge of said section, said backsection having therein upper and lowerlocking tongues provided with transverse slots and connected to saidsection along horizontal hingelines so as to he turned outwardly inopposite directions from said section, and said brace-member havingnucgriil therewith adjacent to said back-section a vertical lockin-section connected thereto along a vertical-hmge-line so as to he turnedoutwardly atan an le to said brace-member said locking-section having onits upper an lower ends tongues to enter said Sl(ll.\ in saidlocking-tongues connected with said back-section.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York.this 29th day of November, A. D. 1912.

SAMUEL KISLOVI'IZ.

Witnesses:

' Cnas. C. Gum, J. R. Farm.

Copies of this patent may be obtained (or a" cents etioln'by addressingthe Commissioner oi Patents, Washington, 1). OJ

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